March 2026

Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware 2026-03-05 at 14:27 By A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a set of never-before-seen malware. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in January 2026,

Where Multi-Factor Authentication Stops and Credential Abuse Starts 2026-03-05 at 14:27 By Organizations typically roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) and assume stolen passwords are no longer enough to access systems. In Windows environments, that assumption is often wrong. Attackers still compromise networks every day using valid credentials. The issue is not MFA itself, but coverage. 

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes 2026-03-05 at 13:02 By Dan Robinson Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider’s 27 km vacuum tubes The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a “mouse-sized robot” to inspect parts of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are out of

APT28-Linked Campaign Deploys BadPaw Loader and MeowMeow Backdoor in Ukraine 2026-03-05 at 13:02 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Russian cyber campaign that has targeted Ukrainian entities with two previously undocumented malware families named BadPaw and MeowMeow. “The attack chain initiates with a phishing email containing a link to a ZIP archive.

MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again 2026-03-05 at 12:24 By SA Mathieson Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will pay telco BT £94.6 million plus VAT to keep its in-cell Prisoner Telephony Service (PTS) going for another 54

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty 2026-03-05 at 12:02 By Lindsay Clark Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators The UK is still in the design phase of digital currency as the EU comes under political pressure to accelerate the development of a digital euro to bolster the

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI 2026-03-05 at 11:09 By Thomas Claburn Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a survey of 200 suits